Tran Uy Duc – the music artist himself dressed as a stylized version of his high school uniform and performed on a walking track built by his father. Simultaneously, a group of dancers in office and technology driver’s uniforms attacked public places in Hanoi where they metamorphosed.

What if we lived in a society in which people who harmed and people who were harmed could heal simultaneously?

Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin is a video essay on survivorhood in which trauma survivors cast a wild vision of a utopian society.
The experimental film unfolds a hypnotic undertow that pulls the spectator into a journey from despair to self-love. The documentary narrates dealing with trauma as a sophisticated skill. Poetic and multi-layered imagery of traveling create a metaphorical space in which narration and imagination melt into a unique story. Different voices of trauma survivors tell about a survivor collective they have formed and they invite the viewers to join them. They encourage an emotional journey to the viewer’s very own abyss. Trauma is often related to speechlessness and isolation, but the film provides collectivity and the idea that healing is a continuing process. The film creates the restlessness that is typical for surviving through imagery and music. But it also makes clear that the transition from surviving to living is characterized by hope: the chorus of survivors shares their skills and their ideas on dealing with violence, the art of making kin and on queer love.

Survivor Manifesto is a political essay that will change your perspective on trauma.

What does it mean to listen while being vulnerable? Taking the concept “music as a gift”, four Berlin-based migrant queer musicians surprised their close friends or relatives with a special song, which then triggered a moment of deep appreciation between them. This film documents that process of them opening up, becoming vulnerable and letting go – with conversations about their marginalized kinship, trust, fluidity and fragility of life. Together they find comfort and “reverberations” (physical phenomenon) of their sounds in each other.

Dancing Bodies is a joyful and sexual ode to sorority.

Five young queer people are admitted into a clinic to undergo conversion therapy. Enduring several different and harrowing methods to change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the sterile space of abject trauma struggles to suppress the abundance and beauty of queer love.

A dreamscape nightmare reflecting the internal conflict grappled by a queer Asian dancer. Embodied and expressed through a martial arts inspired dance-fight, this film touches upon the cultural tensions between traditional and modern identities. The combination of contemporary and martial arts movement represents both entities seeking to co-exist as each other’s yin-yang and finding balance.

Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short.